About

About

Heather MacRae was raised in upstate New York and moved to Savannah, GA in 2011. These environments have had a profound impact on her work.

She received her Bachelor of Arts from Hartwick College with a concentration in Painting and Drawing, minoring in Art- Education (2010). During her undergraduate studies she traveled to Glasgow Scotland to study Painting and Printmaking at the Glasgow School of Art (2009). In 2011 MacRae moved to Savannah, GA to obtain her M.F.A. in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design (2012).

Heather MacRae and three other graduate students (Same Breyer, Naimar Ramirez, and Ben Tollefson) Co-Owned and operated Non-Fiction Gallery from 2012 to 2014. As the Director of Finance and Development, MacRae then stayed on as Exhibitions Director when the gallery was sold to the non-profit organization, Art-Rise Savannah until 2016.

MacRae has been teaching in the Foundation Studies Department at the Savannah College of Design since 2017.

MacRae’s own work has been shown internationally, and across the United States. She has been mentioned in several publications and has written many exhibitions reviews for digital magazines such as the Savannahian, as well as conducted interviews and reviews for publications such as Burnaway Magazine.

MacRae’s paintings focus on the relationship between memory and reality, between the physical and intangible, light and shadow. While she has some series that center on the human experience in the physical form of the body, and the relationship to the body in space, she often finds herself drawn to the juxtaposition of the human presence in the landscape. The geometric man-made form and the irregular organic form and how these two tangle together in the everyday urban landscape.